Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police districts, posing as cops, garbagemen and vagrants. They frequented gambling dens and policy wheel operations, and they found plenty of crooked cops. These police were regularly making their "meets" with the persons who were buying their protection or picking up their "drops" of money left for them to collect at designated spots. An area where "dirty money" was to be made easily was often dubbed a high-crime or "fast" district, and the cop who was not on the take was often automatically suspected of being an undercover agent...
Harvard's varsity skaters tasted their sweetest victory of the season last night in Boston Garden as they edged rival Boston University, 5-4, in the closing minutes of the Beanpot finals to collect their first Beanpot Hockey Championship since...
...subpoenaed to testify at a court-martial in 1818. In a curious modern sequel, a California state judge ordered President John Kennedy to give evidence at a trial in 1961. Some delegates to the 1960 Democratic Convention had been injured while riding in Kennedy's car; to collect damages, they had to prove that they were engaged in business and were not simply guests. Kennedy supported their case in writing...
...British North America Act, Canada's constitution, allows provinces to retain control of their natural resources. People in Alberta and Saskatchewan commonly believe that they, not the federal government, should choose the markets and collect the taxes on oil pumped from the vast reserves within their borders. Easterners and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government maintain that the oil is a national treasure and that its sale abroad should be controlled and taxed by the federal government. The U.S. is the third party with an interest in the dispute; last year an average 1.2 million...
Previous excess-profits taxes have been justified partly as a way to raise vast amounts of money quickly. Now, practically nobody bothers to talk much about how many dollars an excess-profits tax might collect. Instead, the controversy turns on issues of fairness and effectiveness...